---
title: "Quickstart"
description: "The MCPJam inspector can be started with a `npx` command"
icon: "rocket"
---

## Quick start

Run the command in your terminal

    ```bash
    npx @mcpjam/inspector@latest
    ```

After installing the package, you should see a link to `localhost`. Open that link up to see the inspector.

If you don't have Node.js installed, check out our [desktop app](https://mcpjam.com).

## Connect to your first MCP server

Click on "Add server" and connect to your first MCP server

```
npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything
```

<Frame>
  <img src="/images/everything-demo.png" alt="Server everything demo" />
</Frame>

Once you hit submit, you should see the connection status as "Connected". This page is your server connections page. You can connect to multiple MCP servers simulatenously on MCPJam.

<Info>
  `@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything` is the example server from Anthropic
</Info>

## Test an MCP tool

Go to the "Tools" tab. You'll be able to see all of the MCP tools `server-everything` has. Tools tab lets you test individual tools with configured params.

Try testing out the `add` tool and set params for `a` and `b`. Upon hitting "Execute", you should see the tool's return value on the bottom.

<Frame>
  <img src="/images/tool-add.png" alt="Add tool demo" />
</Frame>
## Try other features

Hope this showed you the basics of the inspector. Explore additional parts of the inspector:

- Advanced server connections (HTTP/SSE, STDIO, Auth)
- LLM playground
- Prompts testing
- Resources testing
- Tracing
- Elicitation
- Evals (CLI)
